Digital Storage Manager is a powerful storage management solution specially designed for creative, publishing and prepress workgroups. Workgroups generate thousands of digital document files during the creative and production process. As the number of files grow, so do the challenges faced by the professionals who need them. With Digital Storage Manager, you have the tools and capabilities to overcome these challenges, take control of your digital workflows, and work more efficiently and effectively.
Reuse, don't redo your work. Powerful search tools enable users to find files across all the workgroup's storage resources - including multiple file servers, near-line storage, and offline media. Users can quickly find and retrieve files based on any file, custom, or associated metadata.
Digital Storage Manager utilizes a high performance indexing technology called InterSync. Much like Google scans the Internet and indexes web pages for searching, InterSync performs similar services for your Mac OS X, Windows, Xinet, and other SMB/AFP file servers. The process is fast, automatic and completely transparent to users. Captured metadata includes XMP, IPTC rich document information, and even text content.
Digital Storage Manager automates the entire process of capturing and applying metadata. Its powerful InterSync™ indexing technology automatically captures rich file metadata across your network's file servers. Customizable metadata forms enable workgroups to standardize and efficiently apply metadata on a job, folder, or file basis. Digital Storage Manager can even query other databases for metadata, eliminating manual re-keying of information.
In addition to metadata captured automatically by InterSync, Digital Storage Manager supports fully customizable File Tickets which allow users to add or modify meaningful metadata in real-time, even as files are being worked on.
Digital Storage Manager allows you to manage your files by job. Since Digital Storage Manager knows which files belong to which jobs, you perform archive, copy, move, and retrieve operations at the job level with the confidence that all related files and folders are automatically included. With Digital Storage Manager, you can stop wasting time figuring out which files belong to which job, and instead focus on performing your work.
One of Digital Storage Manager's greatest strengths is in its ability to help creative and production users do their jobs better and faster. With Plug-in integration with popular desktop applications, advanced Digital Storage Manager automation features are available right in the applications users are most familiar with. However, with integrated full size previews, users won't even have to open existing files in their native applications just to see the contents or read the text. Digital Storage Manager provides all this information to users directly in the application, regardless of whether the original file is online or offline, or whether the individual user has access to it.
Digital Storage Manager's powerful Archiving capabilities promote efficient use of available storage resources and provide for the automatic creation of disaster recovery (backup) media. Easy to use helper applications and workflows for centralized and distributed archiving make archiving files incredibly easy, thereby promoting best practices and efficient use of storage space amongst your users. Retrieving files from offline media is fully supported as well. Digital Storage Manager provides comprehensive workflows and helper applications to make retrieving files, even from offline media, incredibly simple and efficient.
Open a window to your production files for external freelancers, marketing departments, customers, or vendors. Access is secure from any location with an internet connection. At last you can provide a simple way for stakeholders outside you workgroups to access the files they need.